Learning to see what He sees.

Month: April 2017

To the girl who feels as though she will never be good enough: listen carefully. You are right. You will never be good enough. You can pause and read that again if you need to. It may not have been what you were expecting, but sometimes the things we need to hear are not what we had hoped to hear. I mean, let’s just be honest. Your life is far from perfect. It is full of disappointments. Full of weaknesses. Full of mistakes. Full of hurt. You have this idea of what the perfect life would be, and you picture that girl in your mind. Deep down you know you will never be that girl. Sure, you try. But you always fail. Because you just aren’t good enough. While this is all true, you have to understand this: you aren’t that girl because she doesn’t exist. I know you’re probably thinking of someone right now and saying, “But she exists. And her life is perfect. Just look at her Facebook profile!” Sister, hear me say …

Three nights ago, my husband received the phone call. You know the one you always hear about but think will never happen to you. Yes, we know life is fleeting, and we knew we would lose his father someday. Just not that day. “You know,” my husband said to me when he returned home from his parents’ home that night. “I always tried to prepare myself for [my father’s passing], but there is just nothing you can do to ever prepare yourself for something like this.” It was midnight at that point, three hours after he heard the sound of his desperate mother’s voice on the other end of the line telling him she couldn’t wake his father. His best friend. His sage. His idol. My father-in-law struggled with heart issues for years, long before I joined the family. In fact, more than 20 years ago he underwent quadruple bypass surgery, and just a few short months ago he had received a pacemaker and defibrillator . And really, we shouldn’t have been surprised with all the heart …